IT Business Analyst IV

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Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company that will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career and personal brand? If so, then you've come to the right place!

General Summary

This position is responsible for being the key representative and liaison for the IT department to the Materials Segment, providing support for business systems and strategically aligning IT initiatives to the assigned department's needs to ensure alignment with IT initiatives and business strategy and needs.

Essential Job Accountabilities

• Analyzes complex business problems to be solved with automated systems to ensure timely, effective and efficient delivery of corporate systems.

• Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements to ensure avoiding unnecessary costs.

• Collect, analyze, and structure business requirements, procedures, and problems to ensure improved business processes through automation and business process re-engineering to ensure timely, effective and efficient delivery of corporate systems.

• Configures system settings and options; plans and executes unit, integration and acceptance testing; and creates requirements documentation for systems to meet business request and needs to ensure appropriate deployment of applications to business users.

• Designs details of automated systems to ensure effective and efficient corporate systems.

• May provide consultation to users in the area of automated systems to ensure business users understand system capabilities and processes.

• May lead cross-functionally-linked teams to address business or systems issues to ensure automated system is responsive to business requirements.

• Collect, analyze, and structure business requirements, procedures, and problems to ensure improved business processes through automation and business process re-engineering.

• Evaluate the impact of system changes introduced by customizations, interfaces, patches, updates, and upgrades to ensure timely, effective and efficient delivery of corporate systems.

Education and Work Experience

• Requires a minimum of 5-8 years of related experience.

• Bachelors Degree preferred

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Knowledge of Command Alkon, APEX, Scale Watcher, Auto ID, and Mobile Sales

• Experience with Aggregate mining business processes i desirable.

• Knowledge of assigned department/business function regulatory requirements desired.

• Good written and oral communication skills with capacity to influence peers, cross-functional partners and management and convey ideas in both business and technical terms.

• Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

• Ability to work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Internal and external contacts often pertain to company plans and objectives.

• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may provide guidance to other personnel.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Our Benefits at a Glance:

Building tomorrow starts with you, and Granite knows that you can excel only if we support you in and out of the workplace. That is why we offer a broad benefits package that includes paid holidays, sick leave, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, flexible spending plans, as well as special programs for musculoskeletal health, mental wellness, and more.

Salaried employees may choose from two PPO medical plans through Anthem BlueCross, including our most popular plan, for which 100% of the premium is paid by Granite for eligible employees and dependents. Employees can also opt into a Health Savings Account (HSA) or a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

As part of our investment in your future outside of the workplace, Granite provides a 100% match on the first 6% of eligible compensation that salaried employees defer into their 401(k) plans, which vests immediately.

Benefits may vary for positions located outside of the continental United States.

Base Salary Range:

$95,005.00 - $190,974.00

Pay may vary based upon relevant experience, skills, location, and education among other factors.

About Granite Construction Incorporated

Granite Construction Incorporated is a member of the S&P 400 Index and is the parent company of Granite Construction Company, one of the nation's largest heavy civil contractors and construction materials producers. Granite Construction is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities and a Drug-Free Workplace. For additional information on applicant/employee rights please click here.

Notice to Staffing Agencies

Granite Construction, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Granite") will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Granite, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Granite mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Granite employees, or to Granite's resume database will be considered Granite property. Granite will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Granite will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Granite's recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Granite will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Granite's Human Resources Representative or his/ her designee. No other Granite employee is authorized to bind Granite to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Agencies.